IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
The Bridge Trading Estate, Bridge Street North, SMETHWICK, B66 2BA
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to The Bridge Trading Estate, Bridge Street North, B66 2BA by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
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Image Map
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Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (130 Images Found)
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
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Birmingham Canal Navigations - New Main Line
The Old Main Line diverges on the left just before the over bridge. The blue chimneys in the background are on the works of Darcast Crankshafts.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 14 Sep 2019
0.02 miles
2
Nearing Smethwick Junction
Just beyond the bridge is the junction with the Brindley canal - the original Birmingham to Wolverhampton route which almost followed the contours. The Telford (the canal shown) and the Brindley canals rejoin just east of Bromford Lane Oldbury, near the Sandwell & Dudley railway station.
Image: © Row17
Taken: 6 May 2008
0.03 miles
3
Birmingham New Main Line Canal
Towards Smethwick Junction.
Image: © Ian S
Taken: 25 Jul 2021
0.03 miles
4
Telford's cast iron roving bridge at Smethwick Junction
A roving bridge allows the horse that is pulling a barge, to cross from one bank of the canal to the other.
Image: © Stuart Logan
Taken: 6 Sep 2005
0.03 miles
5
Birmingham New Main Line Canal
Towards Smethwick Junction.
Image: © Ian S
Taken: 25 Jul 2021
0.04 miles
6
Smethwick Junction
A narrowboat heads along Telford's newer and shorter route to Wolverhampton ignoring Brindley's old main line to the right. The two canals remerge at Tipton.
Image: © Stephen McKay
Taken: 4 Aug 2014
0.05 miles
7
Junction of the Birmingham Main Line and Wolverhampton Level
Footbridge over the Wolverhampton Level is Grade II listed. Listing number 1342672. Canal footbridge. 1828. Cast-iron. Brick abutments have sandstone dressings. Single elliptical arch. Sides each of two castings, bolted to central "keystone". Pierced in form of saltire crosses, with band of quatrefoils below handrail. Spandrel inscribed: "HORSELEY IRON WORKS STAFFORDSHIRE 1828".
Image: © Andrew Abbott
Taken: 13 Sep 2022
0.05 miles
8
Birmingham Canal Navigations at Smethwick Junction
Looking from Telford's new (1824-1838) main line, north-west along Brindley's old (1768-1772) meandering main line. Four hundred metres ahead are the three Smethwick Locks. There were originally six, but in 1789-90 John Smeaton and James Bough lowered the summit level by eighteen feet (5·5 metres) so three of the locks were abandoned.
Off to the left, Telford's new line is much straighter and wider and shorter, utilising deep cuttings and embankments, and only using three locks (at Tipton Green).
Image: © Roger Kidd
Taken: 26 Aug 2010
0.05 miles
9
Smethwick Junction, showing towpath bridge over entrance to former arm
Image: © John Brightley
Taken: 18 Jun 2010
0.05 miles
10
Smethwick Junction
Looking along the BCN old main line to Wolverhampton where it splits from Telford's shorter new line. The canals remerge at Tipton.
Image: © Stephen McKay
Taken: 4 Aug 2014
0.05 miles